>Examples? I can't point you at page numbers off-hand, but there are
>NPC female Wind Lords in, frex, Balazar.
Wind Lords strictly speaking are followers of Orlanth Adventurous and only had limited storm powers in the rules. Female Orlanth Adventuresses are now Vingans.
>The
>account of the exploration of Skyfall Lake involves a female Wind Lord:
>the narrator is surprised that the storms on the lake are so bad that
>even with her Storm powers, she can't control them.
She however comes from Esrolia where the women are in charge and slightly different rules apply.
>KoS makes it clear that a tribal king (and, I think, a clan chief?) must
>be initiates of Orlanth, probably Rex. There are plenty of references to
>female chiefs and kings, quite apart from Kallyr.
I don't think Greg intended to Greg this.
>Kallyr, incidentally, is an initiate (or higher) of Vinga. Also,
obviously, of
>Orlanth Rex, and Sartar. I doubt if it stops there: she's got a link of
>some sort to Polaris, and wanders round chatting to stars on first-
>name terms. Using Kallyr as an example of what your average
>Sartarite woman can do is probably a bad move.
>
>Vinga: I know of no writeup that has been acknowledged as "official":
>but then any such writeup would be done according to HW rules, and
>since these don't exist yet it wouldn't be of enormous help.
>
>Vinga was, I gather, originally intended to be a game equivalent to
>Orlanth Adventurous (but not Thunderous or Rex). It's been developed a
>lot further since then, but that's the general idea.
>
>There is a Vinga write-up on my web page, which has also been
>printed in Tradetalk. Attached to it is a list of links to every other Vinga
>writeup I've been able to find, and a collection of quotes from sources
>that mention Vinga, from which you could build your own cult from
>scratch if you didn't like any of the interpretations on offer.
>
>If you can find any of John Hughes' stories about Cradledaughter, I'd
>suggest reading them as well, but as far as I know they're not on the
>Web (yet).
>
>Personaly speaking I find the whole Vinga thing to be so poor as to be
>unusable.
>
>If a female wants to worship (or is called to do so) a God with the aspects
>of Orlanth , whatever aspect, she does just that!
>
>I just cant see a female not calling on a God just because their male. I'm
>sure that Norse Women called apon Odin or Thor when they felt the need just
>as a male Greek might have called apon Athena. The idea of having male gods
>for men and female goddesses for women ........is just a little odd in my
>opinion.
>
>If she wants a a warrior God then there's Humankt.
>
>If (as seems likely) a more female side is needed there's the female and
>terrifying Gor duo.
>
>
>The whole Vinga thing strikes me as a cop out, I dont like it and I dont use
>it!
>
>
> DomT
>
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